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Yoko Ono: An Artful Life

Donald Brackett

For more than sixty years, Yoko Ono has fascinated us as one of the world's most innovative, radical artists.

From a childhood of both extraordinary privilege and extreme deprivation in war-time Japan, she adopted an outsider's persona and moved to America where, after a spell at Sarah Lawrence College, she made a place for herself in bohemian arts circles. She was already twice divorced and established as a performance artist in the Fluxus movement and in Tokyo's avant-garde scene before her fortuitous meeting with the Beatles' John Lennon at a London Gallery in 1966.

Their intense yet fraught relationship, reputed to have blown-up the Beatles, made headlines around the world, as did their famous bed-ins in protest of the Vietnam war, and their majestic, Grammy-winning musical collaborations.

Through it all, and for decades after Lennon's tragic death, she remained defiantly herself. Yoko Ono: An Artful Life charts her journey of personal turmoil, artistic evolution, and activism, and at last tells her iconic story on her own terms.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Sutherland House Books
  • Publish Date: Apr 7th, 2022
  • Pages: 350
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.20in - 1.20in - 1.15lb
  • EAN: 9781989555583
  • Categories: Entertainment & Performing ArtsWomenGeneral

About the Author

Brackett, Donald: - Donald Brackett is an art and music critic based in Vancouver. He is the author of Back to Black: Amy Winehouse's Only Masterpiece, Long Slow Train: The Soul Music of Sharon Jones, and the Dap-Kings and Tumult!: The Incredible Life of Tina Turner.

Praise for this book

"John and Yoko are inseparable in our consciousness as well. Brackett is well intentioned -- 'the point of this book is that [Ono] had a fascinating and important life of her own apart from [Lennon], one worthy of consideration on its own merits.'" --Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times
"[Donald Brackett] he is an enthusiastic writer, sympathetic to his subject (not so much to Lennon), and alive to the attractions of an unusual person and an unusual life." --Louis Menand, The New Yorker